They explained classes would be reconfigured, curriculum content was being revised, teachers are being retrained on how to teach and what to teach, how every student would have a laptop, books were to be virtually phased out  but some new books would be created for this whole new education system.

We were told it would take a couple of years to get everything in place, but by the time that happens, it would be in every school and every grade in California.

There was no question of refusing because the governor had agreed to it. Its happening, and no one is exempted. Its called the Common Core Curriculum, and its a national program, courtesy of the Obama administration. In fact, it will affect all schools from K-12th grade.

Until that point, Id never heard of it, and there had been nothing in local newspapers and only one column since. Parents have virtually no idea whats being planned for their children, especially since practically no one attends board meetings.

But then there was Obama himself  during the debate moderated by Bob Schieffer  who was talking about that hes accomplished, and he said: You know, under my leadership, what weve done is reformed education, working with governors, 46 states. He said bad schools were improving.

I couldnt believe it! He said it! But no one called him on it. No media pursued what he was talking about. No one wondered why not all 50 states were involved. No one asked what it meant

I found out.

Most traditional fictional literature, classics and poetry are eliminated. Nothing long, only short pieces Children will read whats described as informational texts, government reports, computer manuals and technical bulletins.

I coach baseball at a local CA high school. On Dec 7 I asked a bunch in the dugout if they knew what day this was. More than half piped in, “Pearl Harbor Day”, and they actually knew something about how America had been attacked by air on that Sunday morning in 1941.

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2012/07/agenda-21s-evil-twin-meet-the-common-core-curriculum-and-the-planned-dumbing-down-of-our-kids Agenda 21′s Evil Twin: Meet the Common Core Curriculum, and the PLANNED Dumbing Down of Our Kids More recently, Granite State Patriot, Nancy Kindler has been investigating the Clinton era educational program, Goals 2000, and has managed to obtain a rare copy of a contemporaneous analysis, which explains the hidden agenda behind touchy-feely, feel-good, expressionist Outcome Based Education. What she found was shocking, so I did some searching to verify her findings: Sure enough, most of the official outlets are busy telling you how good these programs are for our kids, even as we fume about the results being precisely the opposite. THEN, I found this incredibly well written and researched blog

I coach baseball at a local CA high school. On Dec 7 I asked a bunch in the dugout if they knew what day this was. More than half piped in, Pearl Harbor Day, and they actually knew something about how America had been attacked by air on that Sunday morning in 1941.

Would I be considered cynical if I suggested you probably coach an predominantly Asian team? ;-)

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posted on 12/10/2012 9:38:06 AM PST
by Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")

Tearing Up the Fabric of a Free Society: The New College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework
Posted on November 25, 2012
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I did not say impair. I did not say damage. I said Tear Up. Why such a dramatic statement? Because the week AFTER Obama was reelected (Nov 12) and then quietly put out more publicly during a holiday week, the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers, the heads of State Departments of Ed which is funded by many of the same businesses who benefit from its edicts including many tech companies and the accreditor AdvancED) issued a Framework that appears designed to create Homo Sovieticus right here in the USA. Seriously. Taking the political theories developed in the USSR to change mindsets there and making them the required perceptual lenses for students to confront daily life here going forward. Treating long-held aspirational visions of collectivist decision-making as established evidence-based fact. Treating metaphors like BEST, Bronfenbrenner Ecological Systems Thinking, as factual descriptions of how the world works. Oh. My. Goodness. So yes, I stand by the words Tear Up the Social Fabric.

This just terrifies me more and more. OMG what will my grandchildren face? We thankfully have gotten our 3 boys raised in a rural southern Indiana small school and they are well versed in the greatness of this country. I can only hope that they teach my yet to be thought of grandkids. My daughter in law is a teacher. She thinks like we do, so hopefully they all will.... just a worry.

What they are doing is removing all creativity from the curriculum. Students can’t challenge manuals and fact sheets. It is training kids to be robots, reading nothing but tweets and doing absolutely no reasoning.

Put that together with the 8 point drop in IQ from heavy marijuana use and increased risk of schizophrenia and it won’t be long before the US produces a whole generation of cyborgs, that rely on their I-phones for everything and cannot survive without them.

It's the Nuremburg Rallies, the Cultural Revolution, and Fahrenheit 451 rolled into one radical, dystopian scheme to destroy America. And that is not overstating the facts.

You have the right of it. It's is all that and more. The war that is being waged by the Left is not for our childrens' minds; it is a war waged on their minds. Robert Conquest had a term for it: mindslaughter.

Who is Robert Conquest? Go to Amazon and find out.

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posted on 12/10/2012 9:47:32 AM PST
by Noumenon
(As long as you have a rifle, you STILL have a vote.)

What they are doing is removing all creativity from the curriculum. Students cant challenge manuals and fact sheets. It is training kids to be robots, ... doing absolutely no reasoning.

Exactly like the Chinese culture. Creativity is exceedingly rare in their engineering graduates... but since their culture sees nothing wrong with "borrowing", it isn't much of a problem, as long as someone else is creative enough.

(Plagiarism is a very big problem with Chinese students.)

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posted on 12/10/2012 9:50:50 AM PST
by Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)

Collect and save important books now.
Someday soon they will be almost unavailable.

People are willingly but unwittingly making it easier and easier for the government to curb freedoms and control information by embracing electronic conveniences.

When students and the general population are weaned off paper books and ‘trained’ to totally receive their information electronically, the government will have the power to control what everyone can read or not read.

Someday only approved books will be converted to digital form.

Libraries today are already stocking fewer and fewer books.
Old reference books are increasingly being replaced with electronic versions.
The book stacks in libraries are almost deserted while the growing ranks of computer workstations have people waiting for a turn.

We have already surpassed the limits of George Orwell’s most extreme warnings of totalitarian government information control and more is on the way.

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posted on 12/10/2012 9:59:19 AM PST
by metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)

The left got smart when they saw they could not take over in the 60s. They went into the colleges and then into teaching and schools. Basically, they have won that war. They have dumbed down millions of kids by now and there is little chance of getting them back.

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posted on 12/10/2012 10:00:12 AM PST
by metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)

If you don’t graduate from high school you will learn how to make an “X” for your name. If you do graduate you will learn how to sign your name for yourself and next to those you know who didn’t graduate and made their “X”.

Since the cultural resources are fast vanishing and we need to encourage each other on, here are brief explanations of the Nuremberg Rallies (Nazi Party conventions in the 1930s), and the Cultural Revolution (Communist Chinese purge of Western influence).

The problem with the Left’s takeover of public schools is arguably really the fault of hypocritical patriots who evidently don’t know the Constitution any better than the Left does.

More specifically, as a consequence of patriots not taking the responsibility to know the Constitution, patriots are clueless that, since the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to address public school issues, Congress cannot regulate, tax and spend in the name of public schools.

And since Congress cannot make legislation regulating public schools, neither can Obama make a constitutionally defensible executive order to manipulate public schools.

A few states have opted out of the Common Core Texas and Virginia are two.

I'm not so sure about Texas. I just got this in email yesterday:

"On Saturday morning I sent you the alerter below to Wayne Richards radio program dealing with a curriculum in many Texas schools called CSCOPE. (I cant imagine that it  or something like it  is not in schools across the country!)

I listened to the program  and you MUST too! It will be archived on Waynes website by Monday noon. www.WayneRichardShow.com

FOR QUICK ACCESS TO WHAT WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT  go to www.CSCOPEreview.com and just click around, read articles, if you live in Texas see the huge list of schools where this is already in place!

The program is highly secret  no textbooks, online only in the schools no one can look at it at home. Parents are not allowed access. Many teachers are disturbed because they must teach it and not talk about it.

The CSCOPE curriculum has a lot of Agenda 21 things in it  purposely dumbing down Americans, lots of groupthink vs individual initiative & concern. Incorrect instruction is rampant  Columbus was a terrorist, 2nd Amendment means only militias can have guns, Christianity is a cult, and on and on. (Lots of details on the website, including teachers horror stories!)

The woman interviewed by Wayne is Janice Van Cleave, a retired science teacher who has written many textbooks. She pointed out that the method of instruction used by CSCOPE is vision learning  not fact-based, but discussion groups getting kids to share how they feel about a topic at hand. The resulting consensus constitutes what they learn about the topic!

In Texas, the curriculum has been put together and implemented by the Educational Service Centers around the state  not seen at all by the State Board of Education! As a start, we can tell our legislators, as they begin the new session, to give the SBOE review & approval power over ALL curriculum!

Sorry Im rambling, but Im truly concerned after hearing this program. So  PLEASE do two things:

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posted on 12/10/2012 12:44:38 PM PST
by metmom
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posted on 12/10/2012 12:45:38 PM PST
by metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)

I was thankful that our school district is not on the *naughty* list. That doesn’t mean we can relax or rest on our laurels...every parent, grandparent, family member and all teachers need to made aware of this. Thanks for your post with all the info.

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